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"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; there is no knowledge that is not power"
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eating Disorders among Female College Students
Section I: Introduction
Eating disorders are found in women all over the world. It is estimated that in the United States alone, 11 million women suffer from some type of eating disorder, whether it be anorexia, bulimia or binge eating.
(1) Further research shows that one of 10 college students suffer from an eating disorder. (2) Collegiate women aer among the most susceptible to this psychological killer. Statistics indicate that the most likely candidates are young women, usually between the ages of 18-23, who are bright, articulate and energetic. (3) It sounds like a woman with no problems or insecurities; however, the pressure to be perfect all of the time, compounded with the image that society has created as an ideal figure can be detrimental. The struggle between these pressures causes women to manipulate their weight as means of control in their fight for perfection.
Typically, those suffering from eating disorders are very secretive about their condition; however warning signs can alert friends or family of their disorder. By educating those who may be most impacted by eating disorders, we may reach out to those suffering from these types of problems and encourage them to take advantage of the treatments that are available.
Section I-b Keywords:
UNC library Catalog:
Eating disorders AND young women
Female college students AND anorexia
Academic Universe Lexis-Nexis
Collegiate females w/ 5 eating disorders
Eating disorders AND females
Section II:
Two print sources from UNC libraries:
(1) Gordon, Richard., Eating Disorders: Anotomy of a Social Epidemic. Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishing, 2001.
(2) Malson, Helen. The Thin Woman. New York : Routlege, 1998.
Non-Paper
Kilbourne, Jean and Jhally, Sut. Hopes. Produced and Directed by Sut Jhally. 30min.
Media Education Foundation, 1995. Videocassette. UL-65-V6106-Non-Print
Section III:
- Brody, Jane (1996, January 31). Personal Health. New York Times [Online], 1179 words
- Cohen, Philp (1997, May 10). Mixed Messages Feed Eating Disorders. New Scientist [Online], 814 words.
- Dunn, Don. (1992, August, 3). When Thiness Becomes Illness. Business Week [Online], 978 words.
- Rubin, Courtney. (2001, May) Losing It. Washingtonian [Online], 6987 words.
Mini-Essay
Dark Side of the Net:
Child Pornography Hidden on Corporate Networks
Child pornography is hidden on virtually every large corporate network, according to security experts. While it’s common to hear stories of workers being fired for downloading pornographic images onto their systems, it’s even more common to hear people complain of pornographic spam.
Child pornography, explicit images and text dealing with underage children
– can be easily found on every large network – be it corporate,
academic or government, according to IT experts. Experts in employment
law said corporations could be held liable if an employee uses a work
computer to download pornography via file-sharing networks but only if
another employee takes offense and reports it to management and the company
fails to take action.
This is the very heart of darkness on the Internet. These are images that are more than shocking and repulsive. They kill your soul, in part because one know that every poor child you see on these sites is at the hands of a sadist, then decades from now from drugs, alcoholism or suicide. It makes one sick, then angry, and finally homicidal to think of the evil people out there viewing and making profits off of such precious things. If you could get a hold of the people perpetrating this, you would want kill them with your bare hands. But you can't; the best thing you can do is expose them.
On January 22, 2001, the United States Supreme Court granted the government's petition for review on the issue of the constitutionality of the 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA) in which Congress sought to modernize federal law by enhancing its ability to combat child pornography in the computer era.
CPPA classifies an image that "appears to be" or "conveys
the impression" of a minor engaging in sexually explicit acts as
"virtual" child pornography. Such images include a photograph
of a real child that may be scanned, replicated and manipulated by computer
to create a sexually-oriented photo, or a wholly fake child that may be
generated solely by computer graphics.
By enacting this law, Congress recognized a loophole in the child pornography
law, in that technological improvements have made it possible for child
pornographers to use computers to "morph" or alter innocent
images of actual children to create a composite image showing them in
sexually explicit poses.
Analysts and law enforcement say it’s not simply a case of someone accidentally opening an offensive spam message (1). Security and law enforcement experts have differing opinions on whether or not a company is held liable for illegal content sitting on its network. Most agree that IT managers need to go looking for it and once it’s found, it need to be reported to the police (2). All the analysts agree that the best way to head the problem off is to create a policy that restricts corporate Internet usage for anything but strictly business purposes. Users should have no expectations of privacy when using company equipment and services (3). Congress intended to (a) ban computer-generated images that are "virtually indistinguishable" from those of real children, (b) to protect the privacy of actual children whose innocuous images are altered to create sexually explicit images and (c) to deprive child abusers of a "criminal tool" frequently used to facilitate the sexual abuse of children (4).
Sources:
(1) Gauldin, Sharon. “Child Porn Hidden on Corporate Networks.”
(February 14, 2003)
Available from Datamation, accessed May 2003 available from
http://www.itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/1584551
(2) Larou, Jan. “The Porn Ring Around Corporate White Collars.”
(December 12, 2002):5; Available from Concerned Women for America, accessed
May 2003, available from http://www.cwfa.org/articles/2909/LEGAL/pornography/
(3) Free Speech Coalition v Reno. Holder v. Free Speech Coalition. Docket
No. 00-795 http://www.parrhesia.com/cp.html
(4) Obscenity Law Bulletin. (July 2002) ; Accessed June 2002, available
http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/docket/features2001.html
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